Foodfight!, an infamously horrible CG animated comedy starring product mascots, virtually received a tie-in PS2-era online game. And whereas the tie-in recreation was by no means completed, largely as a result of the film lingered in improvement hell, we now have entry to belongings from the Foodfight! recreation and have a extra full story of what this factor was and the way it got here to be.
Should you’re accustomed to Foodfight! it’s probably as a result of it’s usually known as one of many worst films ever made. It was deliberate to launch in 2003, however quite a few delays, manufacturing setbacks, and different issues led to the CG movie not seeing the sunshine of day till 2012 by way of an insurance coverage firm. And what we received was a horrendous mess of product mascots—like Mrs. Butterworth and Charlie Tuna—interacting with ugly characters voiced by folks like Wayne Brady, Eva Longoria, Hillary Duff, and Charlie Sheen, who performs the primary star of the movie, a speaking dog-human hybrid detective. And, as with many films from the early 2000s, the plan was to launch a tie-in online game alongside the venture.
We’ve lengthy identified in regards to the existence of this recreation however not a lot past that. It was solely confirmed by way of a small snippet of gameplay seen in some random E3 2006 B-roll footage, after which it disappeared. That each one modified final week because of a beautiful weblog on Mimeohead in regards to the long-lost Foodfight! recreation.
In response to Ziggy, the author behind the brand new weblog who spoke to Foodfight! developer Harley Howe, the sport was being developed for Wii, PS2, Xbox, and DS. The small studio behind the sport, Cat Daddy, began engaged on the venture in 2004. The crew put collectively some playable demos and confirmed the sport off at E3 2006.
However as time went on, it grew to become clear to the devs that the folks engaged on the movie had been in approach over their heads and had been unlikely to complete Foodfight! on schedule. So in 2008 Cat Daddy canceled manufacturing on the tie-in recreation and shifted to different tasks.
The total story, full with some great anecdotes in regards to the director of Foodfight! arriving on the studio in a large fur coat, is value studying on Mimeohead.
And hey, this all has a cheerful ending. Foodfight! helped Cat Daddy broaden and begin engaged on larger video games. The studio nonetheless exists immediately. Plus Howe was capable of share belongings from the venture on-line. So whereas we will’t play the unfinished demos, we will no less than dig across the tie-in recreation’s fashions, music, and different digital bits like online game archeologists. And I suppose, Foodfight! (the film) was launched ultimately. Okay, perhaps it’s not a whole completely happy ending.
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